"HENDERSON GATEWAY to 'central CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR 11. s„ BRITAIN, Tobacco Compact Bill SrasiS GOVERNOR’S OFFICE In Mid-Afternoon No An nouncement Had Been Made as to Steps Planned in State house committee STRIKES BIG SNAG Unwilling To Write Into Compacts Measure Provi sion Prohibiting Shipment of Leaf from Non-Compact State to Compact State; Objection Raised Raleigh, March 25 (AP) The Tobacco State Advisory Committee met in executive ses «on here today with Governor Ehringhaus to discuss develop ment > in the weed control situ ation. The meeting was private, and after member? had been considering r/at prs more than an hour, Governor Ehringhaus said there could be no an nouncement until the session adjourn ed. if then. TOBACCO COMPACT BILL HITS SNAG IN CONGRESS Washington, March 25 ■?■ <: :•. <2? Flood wall at Portsmouth, 0., keeps out Ohio river as city waits tensely behind the dike. Note guard* measuring the rising water, and sand bags be'tind the three-mile-long wall, to strengthen it. Peace Or War May Hang Upon Hitler’s Attitude European Crisis Arising from Germa'ni Rhineland Occupation Inten sified by Reply NOW UP TO EDEN TO FIND NEW SOLUTION Long, Difficult Series of Ne gotiations Foreseen as Hit ler Promises New Propo sals of His Own Next Tues day After the Reichstag Elections London, March 24 (AP) —Adolf Hitler’s rejection of the Locarno powers’ proposals, heightening the European crisis over German occupation of the Rhineland, was deliberated by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin’s cabinet today at its regular weekly meeting. Hitler’s refusal to withdraw his forces from the Rhineland or to ac cept a judgment by the World Court in Germany’s argument against the (Continued on Page Six.) threatening a third party drive, and expressing disfavor for such a move.' Clements said he believed the organ ization should be kept non-political. He said that while he would no long er serve in an official capacity, he would do all possible to advance the old age pension idea. . , ~ , Both he and Townsend denied that the latter’s friendliness toward the candidacy of Senator Borah, of Idaho, for the Republican presidential nomi nation was at the bottom of the re- S1 Chairman Bell, Democrat, Missouri, of the investigating committee, sum moned Clements to take the stand to morrow to disclose details of the Townsend organization’s methods and of finances. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER Candidate Again ir BAXTER DURHAM B S Fill Incumbent, With Stiff Op position, Makes His For mal Announcement Dally Dispatch Bureau. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Ry j. C. BASKS3RVILB Raleigh, March 25.—Baxter Durham today announced that he is a candi date for renomination as the Demo cratic candidate for State auditor, which post he has held continuously since 1920. In the two sentence an nouncement he issued today, Durham said: “I am asking the Democracy of North Carolina to renominate me as State auditor in the primary to be held June 6. I am sincerely grateful for the expression of confidence and faith the people of the State have given me in years past. I have tried to live and serve in such away as to merit the continuation of this con fidence." State Auditor Durham is 58 years old, having been born in Durham (Continued on Page Two.) HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, MARCH 25, 1936 FRANCE Still NAVAL TREATY Ak M V •• In Congress Hits Snag As Sign-Up Waits PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA He Never Stood Very High With Dominant Group in Republican Party lim State PLATFORM SIMILAR to dr. McDonald’s Very Brief Plank on Plat form Called “Pussyfoot ing” Stand; Carefully Worded To Entice Dry Democrats, Still Allows Nearly Any Course Desired Dally Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J- C. BASKERVIM, Raleigh, March 25—The Republi cans of the State, in convention as sembled, indorsed the platform of Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, of Winston- Salem, one of the four candidates for the Democratic nomination for gov ernor, named Gilliam Grissom as the Republican cfndidate for governor by a vote of 694 1-2 to 393 1-2 for Irvin B. Tucker, who had been regarded as certain to get this nomination and much to the dismay of the Tucker backers, railed at President Roose velt and the “New Deal,” adopted a pussyfooting plank favoring the re tention of State prohibition and as sailing county liquor control, named the rest of its State ticket, adjourned and went home late Tuesday after noon. Victory for Insurgents The nomination of Grissom over Tucker was regarded as a distinct vic tory Jor the Republican "insurgents” in the State who for some time now OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy tonight and Thursday; occasional rains probable; not much change in temperature. PROCESSING TAXES WILL BE KEPT OUT OF MEASURE House Ways and Means Sub-Committee Sudden ly Reverses Stand to Throw Them Out NEVER WAS STRONG FOR THAT TYPE TAX Levy on Non - Resident Aliens Owtaling American Stocks Cut from 32 1-2 to 22 1-2 Percent; Huge Gobs of Money To Be Realized From Rates Washington, March 25.—(AP) — A House Ways and fM'eans sub-commit tee reversed itself suddenly today and agreed to keep processing and all other excise taxes out of a report on which the full committee will open hearings Monday on the new revenue program. Chairman Samuel B. Hill, Democrat Washington, told reporters: “We have eliminated entirely the subject of processing taxes and all excis taxes from the report as a basis for hearings, because we weren’t very keen for it at any time, and felt we would get pretty close to the amount of money we need from other sources.” The sub-committee agreed, too, ho said, to reduce from 33 1-2 to 22 1-2 percent the tax rate on dividends to non-resident, alien owners of stock in American corporations. He said it was felt the rate was too high, and the lower rate might even pioduce more money. Hill said it was exppcted that $591,- 000,000 of additional revenue would be produced from a new corporation tax based on amounts of net income held back for reserves; $83,000,000 from temporary continuation of existing capital stock and excess profits levies; $100,000,000 from a “windfall” (Continued on Page Three.) Small Shopkeeper Also Seen Lining Up With Work ers and Farmers By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer One of the peculiarities of the presi dential situation is manifesting itself stronger than ever. That is, the ap parently increasing support of Presi dent Roosevelt by Progressive Re publicans, Socialists —and small shop keepers. Conservatives may ask, ironically, “What else could you expect?” But conservatives overlook the fact that progressives and Republicans consider President Roosevelt’s admin istration now as “thoroughly reac tionary.’’ Yet polls of voters, letters to news papers and private opinions of poli tical “experts” indicate that President Roosevelt has all but absorbed the votes of the Progressive Republicans and Socialists in the midwest, in the (Continued on Page Five) Desperate Appeal For Hauptmann Is Made By Attorney Trenton, N. J., March 25. —(AP) —With death in the electric chair facing Bruno Bichard Hauptmann in six days, his counsel, C. Lloyd Fisher, was expected to make a desperate plea for mercy late to day to the State Court of Par dons. At State Prison preparations went forward for the dual execution next Tuesday night of Hauptmann, con victed Lindbergh baby killer, and Charles Zied, Philadelphia gangster, who slew a Camden, N. J. f detective in a hold-up. Governor Harold G. Hoffman said he would do nothing about answer PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Arms Parity Will Be Maintained By U. S. With Britain Council President m ipFwi Ik §S\ S. M. Bruce t S. M. Bruce, the Australian High' Commissioner in London and presi dent of the League of Nations Coun cil, is presiding officer at the daily hearings at London where the na tions of Europe are seeking amic able settlement of Germany’s viola tion of the Locarno Pact.